Famed micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired location tracking firm Mixer Labs for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition would help the site to enhance the “contextual” relevance of location to tweets – messages posted on the site which can have a maximum of 140 characters.

via Twitter buys location tracking entity Mixer Labs.

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